About the job PM SSS (Mohali)
Project Manager/Senior Project Manager - Data and Monitoring at Central Square Foundation
Job Title: Project Manager (Data and Monitoring)
Organization: Central Square Foundation
Team: Strategic Support States
Location: Mohali, Punjab
Central Square Foundation:
Founded in 2012, Central Square Foundation (CSF) is a non-profit philanthropic foundation working on the vision of ensuring quality school education for all children in India. We are driven by our mission to transform the school education system with a focus on improving children's learning outcomes, especially in low-income communities.
Learn more about CSF on our website.
About the team:
Strategic Support States (SSS) team at Central Square Foundation assists the States in designing and implementing the respective state missions to ensure FLN learning outcomes for children. Spread across five states, the Project Management Units (PMUs) of the team work closely with the state bodies in co-ideating goals of the missions, identifying critical workstreams, setting indicators of success across the workstreams, and reviewing mission progress. Apart from these core activities, the SSS team also conducts action research projects and pilots context-specific programs to accelerate student learning.
Position Summary
CSF is recruiting for a position of Project Manager/Senior Project Manager based out of Mohali to support the State FLN team in developing and rolling out a holistic foundational learning program. This role will cater specifically to workstreams of designing and activating reliable data gathering, and analysis structures for the government, to make decisions that directly impact day to day functioning of the key stakeholders and learning outcomes for the children. The role will be critical to setting a culture of data-based decision-making in the government system and building stakeholder capacity to make plans and take actions using data.
Key Responsibilities
Setting up the monitoring system for the FLN program to enable our state partners to track implementation fidelity and inform course corrections in our programs
Conceptualise and design end to end Monitoring Frameworks (tools, processes) that can be adopted by state governments, partners
Review existing approaches and management information systems of states, and align, and support required changes
Design and operationalize dashboards that can facilitate data use and decision making Coordinate between different teams within and outside of CSF to ensure the generation of high-quality monitoring data
Support the design of program evaluation (frameworks, proposed sampling, tools, etc. Required Qualifications, Skills, and Abilities
Bachelors degree from a reputed university is required, and a Masters degree is preferred in relevant fields, including economics, public/education policy, or any related field
2 to 6 years (for Project Manager/Senior Project Manager) of relevant experience in the designing and implementation of monitoring and evaluation in development projects/contexts.
Experience in conducting evaluation/research studies, from designing the study to its implementation, analysis, and presentation of results and recommendations
Strong skills in measurement and data collection (quantitative and qualitative), including designing tools and strategies for data collection, data analysis, and reporting
Strong understanding of concepts like Logic Model/Logical Framework, Theory of Change, major evaluation methodologies (experimental and non-experimental), monitoring,
Ability to understand complex research/data to draw actionable inferences
Excellent writing and presentation skills
Preferred Experience
Experience in conducting and/or managing large-scale surveys
Experience in designing, implementing, and operating project M&E systems
Experience in conducting evaluation/research studies, from designing the study to its implementation, analysis, and presentation of results and recommendations
Experience in analyzing data using statistical tools and packages (Excel, SPSS, Stata, R) Additional Details
Start Date: As soon as possible
Compensation: Remuneration will be competitive with Indian philanthropy pay scales and will depend upon the candidates experience levels.